A seventeen-year-old boy is suspected of espionage on behalf of a hacker group affiliated with Russia. The boy is said to have instructed two other seventeen-year-old boys to map WiFi networks in The Hague for several days, also known as ‘WiFi sniffing’. That reports the Public Prosecution Service (OM) on Friday.
The boys are said to have walked past the Canadian embassy, Europol police service and Eurojust, among others. The information collected would then have been shared for a fee with the Russian hacking group, which could use it for espionage and cyber attacks.
Two suspects were arrested on September 22 and were brought before the examining magistrate. He decided that both suspects should remain in custody for fourteen days. One boy was allowed to serve this sentence at home, the other in juvenile detention. The latter can now also await the ongoing investigation at home, “under slightly less strict conditions,” the Public Prosecution Service says. A third suspect was not arrested due to his “limited role”.
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